“Heat”
Margaret McGarvey
Georgia Poet
@@Bibliography:
McGarvey, Margeret. "Heat." LitFinder. Galenet. Starr's
Mill Media Center, Fayetteville, Georgia. Date/2007.
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Heat holds the lowlands now
In its hot embrace,
Gives the hungry piney-folk
Little cause for grace.
Women lean all languidlike
In the open door,
Naked children, puppywise,
Sprawl upon the floor.
Heat holds the scraggy patch
Up to farming scorn,
Turns to tawny paper scraps
Rows of young green corn.
Strips the idling menfolk down
To hairy chest and breeches,
Leaves the bony cows to thirst
At the dried-up ditches.
In the shimmering haze of heat
Only buzzards pass,
Soar above an August world
Still as under glass.